10/23/12

This blog just passed a milestone (at least to me) of 10,000 pageviews. That just means that there have been 10,000 looks at this blog. This is you kind folks who actually go to Just Passin' Thru - it doesn't count you who read my posts on your emails. It also does not the count the ten thousand times I reread after posting to check again for misspelled words.

Now, I'm not a numbers person, but I'm absolutely amazed that I've had 10,000 reads. Amazing. I look at those numbers and wonder who I'm talking to, and what you think, and if you sometimes laugh, or roll your eyes, or delete, or wish I'd write better structured sentences. (one blog expert actually recommends writing the way you talk, Y'all!)

The online educated guessers estimate that there are 181,000,000 bloggers out there in the big world wide web. One hundred eighty one million bloggers at last estimate. 180,999,999 (is that right?) bloggers and little old me with 10,000 pageviews.

When I started this blog I had hardly even looked at a blog - much less written one - now I think in blog posts and photo opportunities. My man says things to me like, "I see a blog a coming" and "this had better not show up in a blog". Uh-oh!

I always have 3 or 4 posts sitting over in the drafty area that I am pondering over. Some get pondered for a long time. Some get rewritten 10,000 times and some never make the final cut. As I write this post in draft there are actually only 9,994 pageviews for all time - not yet 10,000, but I'm writing in faith that there'll be 10,000 by.....maybe tomorrow. I smiling.

She made her debut in June of 2010 when we went to North Dakota the first time. That's really only about 11.83 pageviews per day for a total of 10,000 pageviews. Not really that many pageviews - but it looks like a lot to me!

I don't advertise, sell anything, or really have any lofty goals for this blog - except to keep you updated on our where-abouts. And maybe give you a chuckle. And maybe encourage you. And maybe show you the amazing things going on in my life. And maybe just to write.

I love all 10,000 of you (ok - 26 - but I love you all the same). Thank you for telling me in the grocery store and post office that you read me. Thank you for overlooking my misspelled words and bad Texas grammar. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you.

About Me

I am a wife, mother, grandmother and daughter of the Most High God. This blog was born out of a need to keep my family and friends updated when I started following my husband and his job. The stories here are an extension of my journal as well as my Bible studies. These days, the jobs have ended and we are back on the farm. I hope what you read here encourages, blesses, and entertains you as you pass through the journeys of your life.

Following God

When the Israelites were about to leave the wilderness and cross into the land promised to them, Joshua instructed them to follow the Ark of the Covenant (God's Presence) because, "you have not passed this way before". Joshua 3:4